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Tuesday, December 25, 2018

I WATCHED SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS INSTEAD OF WRITING THE LAST POST

NOW YOU CAN WATCH IT TOO!

I'LL FINISH UP ON THURSDAY PROBABLY. IN THE MEANTIME HERE'S A SET I HAD QUEUED UP FOR A PREVIOUS 12 DAYS OF WHATEVER THAT I NEVER GOT AROUND TO. COMIXOLOGY TRADING CARD SET HELPFULLY PROVIDED BY @THOSEBACKPAGES. WITH GAIL SIMONE ROOKIE CARD!!!1

HISTORY LESSON: SCIENCE NINJA TEAM GATCHAMAN IS AN ANIME AS OLD AS I AM. IT'S ABOUT FIVE FEISTY TEENS WHO COSPLAY AS BIRDS AND FLY AROUND IN A SPACESHIP THAT LITERALLY BURSTS INTO FLAMES WHEN AN EXTREMELY CAMP EVILDOER STARTS SOME SHIT

IN 1978 SANDY FRANK CHOPPED UP THE ORIGINAL SERIES, DUBBED IT INTO ENGLISH, ADDED AN R2D2 RIPOFF FOR SOME NEEDLESS COMEDY SEGMENTS AND SLAPPED IT INTO SYNDICATION. THIS IS THE VERSION I WATCHED ON TBS AND IS THE ONLY OFFICIAL CANON VERSION EVER AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED

IN 2002 TOP COW COMICS DID A TWELVE ISSUE RUN BASED ON THE SERIES PLUS SOME ONE-OFFS AND CROSSOVERS. IT'S THE COMIC THAT GOT ME BACK INTO READING NEW COMICS, AND AS A RESULT I HAVE A BIG PILE OF EARLY '00S ISSUES OF STUFF I NEVER WANT TO READ AGAIN. THE SERIES ENDED ON A CLIFFHANGER ON ISSUE 12 AND WAS CANCELLED DUE TO LOW SALES. BECAUSE OF COURSE IT WAS

THIS PACK OF CARDS CAME OUT ABOUT THE SAME TIME AS THE COMIC BUT SEEMS TO BE MORE ABOUT THE TV SHOW THAN THE COMIC ALTHOUGH COMIC ARTISTS ARE INVOLVED. I ONLY BOUGHT ONE PACK BECAUSE CHEAP AND I SEEM TO BE MISSING EXACTLY ONE ISSUE FROM THE COMPLETE COMIC RUN TOO AND I REGRET EVERYTHING

GREAT TO GET THE TITLE CARD IN THE FIRST PACK OPENED. LEFT TO RIGHT, THE CHARACTERS:

TINY - DRESSES AS AN OWL, PILOTS THE EXPLODEY SHIP. THE COOLEST OF THEM ALL AND THE ONE I PRETENDED I WAS WHEN I PLAYED G-FORCE AT RECESS. I STILL WANT A NUMBER 5 T-SHIRT

PRINCESS - DRESSES AS A SWAN, THE GIRL. BEST BIRD NINJA WHO ISN'T A PILOT, HAS A BAD ASS MOTORCYCLE

MARK - DRESSES AS AN EAGLE? FALCON MAYBE, THE LEADER. DAD LEFT FOR SPACE SMOKES AND NEVER CAME BACK AND NOW HE'S ANGSTY

JASON - DRESSES AS WHICHEVER BIRD OF PREY MARK ISN'T, THE BAD BOY. TROUBLEMAKER, RACES AROUND IN A FAST CAR AND REBELS AGAINST THE MAN

KEYOP - DRESSES AS SOME TINY BIRD I CAN'T KEEP UP WITH ALL THE BIRDS, THE SNEAKY LITTLE BROTHER. HAD A FUCKED UP VOICE AND MIGHT BE AN ALIEN OR ANDROID

ZOLTAR - THE ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS EVIL LEADER OF SPECTRA WHO SIMULTANEOUSLY FASCINATED ME AND SCARED THE SHIT OUT OF ME WHEN I WAS A KID. HAS A HOT SISTER

WHAT IN SAM HELL IS THAT DRAWING OF PRINCESS ON THE BACK. LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING THAT JUST GOT BANNED FROM TUMBLR

SPACE TERRAPIN! THE EVIL MONSTER ROBOT FROM THE FIRST EPISODE. I REMEMBER WATCHING THIS AND SEEING THE MONSTER FUCK UP A SHIP AND THERE WAS A SCENE WHERE THE PASSENGERS WERE IN THE OCEAN SCREAMING AND THERE WAS THIS BABY SPLASHING AROUND SEEMINGLY PERPLEXED BY THESE EVENTS AND MY THOUGHTS WERE HOLY SHIT THIS SHOW JUST DROWNED A BABY. JAPANESE CARTOONS WERE FUCKING HARD CORE

STEALTH CASEY KASEM CARD. THIS CARD MADE ME LOOK UP THE VOICE ACTORS AND HOLY FUCKING SHIT KEYOP WAS VOICED BY ALAN YOUNG. NOW I'M EVEN MORE PISSED BY THE SUBSEQUENT RE-DUBBING THAT HAD KEYOP SPEAKING WITHOUT THE STUTTER. THEY CHANGED ALL THE NAMES TOO, WHAT THE ASS

MORE MARK AND HIS TRAGIC BACKSTORY. DEADBEAT DAD COLONEL CRONUS IS A JERK

WHIRLWIND PYRAMID IS BOTH LUDICROUS AND AWESOME. JUMP UP ON EACH OTHER'S SHOULDERS LIKE A CHEERLEADER SQUAD AND THEN SPIN AROUND AND KICK PEOPLE'S ASSES. HOW DOES PHYSICS EVEN WORK

FRICKIN' MARK HOT PACK. ARE TINY AND PRINCESS EVEN IN THIS SET. TURNS OUT HE IS AN EAGLE ALTHOUGH I DON'T KNOW ABOUT THIS KEN CHARACTER

BAD GUYS! AT LEAST TINY AND PRINCESS GOT A COUPLE CAMEOS IN THE MARK PACK. IT AMUSES ME THAT THE HENCHMEN OF THE SERIES ARE ALL DRESSED AS BLUE-GREEN KITTYCATS WITH MULLETS

I NEED A SET OF THIS. SHOULDA BOUGHT MORE NON-SPORTS INSTEAD OF ODDBALL FLEER AND DONRUSS ONE-OFF SETS IN THE EARLY 00S. WILL TRADE PATCHWORKS AND THROWBACK THREADS FOR KEYOPS

TIME TO SHIFT GEARS

2017 DONRUSS DOLLAR TREE FUN SIZE PACK

KYLE SCHWARBER, PACK COVER BOY. THIS WAS A FATHER'S DAY GIFT IF I AM NOT MISTAKEN

THE 1990 DONRUSS SET COULD HAVE LOOKED GOOD.IT COULD HAVE LOOOKED GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOODI SHOUT TO THE HEAVENS

GOD DOES NOT LISTEN

THE DONRUSS DESIGNS THUS FAR HAVE BEEN AN ODD MASH OF 80S DESIGNS REMIXED TO LOOK LIKE 80S DESIGNS CREATED BY SOMEONE WHOSE DAD WAS BORN IN THE 80S. IT'S KIND OF THE VAPORWAVE OF CARD DESIGN, NOSTALGIC BUT SURREAL

FAB FIVE FREDDIE ON AN '83 DESIGN. EVERYTHING IS BEAUTIFUL

AND THE BACK

EVERYTHING IS AWFUL

IS IT REALLY A MAX SCHERZER CARD IF ONLY ONE EYE IS VISIBLE. I FEEL CHEATED SOMEHOW

OF COURSE THE ROOKIE SEASON JASON KIDD CARD WITH A JORDAN CAMEO COMES OUT OF THE PACK WITH A MANGLED CORNER. I AIN'T EVEN MAD, I ALREADY HAVE THE CARD AND HIS ROOKIE CARD IS IN SERIES ONE ANYWAY

WHICH I DON'T HAVE, FUCKITALL

JOE KLEINE, A PERFECTLY CROMULENT BACKUP CENTER WHO MANAGED 15 YEARS IN THE LEAGUE. SITTING ON THE BENCH WATCHING ROBERT PARISH IS A PRETTY SWEET GIG.

GOT IT

NOTE THIS SET USES THE SAME DESIGN SEEN ON THE 1994 FOOTBALL AND HOCKEY SETS. THE 1994 BASEBALL DESIGN WITH THE SQUINCHED PHOTO ON THE BOTTOM LEFT CORNER WAS ALREADY USED IN THE 1993-94 SPECIAL EDITION SET. 93-95 UPPER DECK BASKETBALL IS CONFUSING AS HELL

CARLOS ROGERS ACTUAL ROOKIE CARD. CARLOS HAD AN OK CAREER BUT HE'S NO JOE KLEINE

NEED IT

MICHAEL CAGE IS AWESOME. WINDEXMAN CLEANING THEM BOARDS. THESE CLEVELAND UNIFORMS ARE NOT AWESOME. YE GODS. I REGRET NOT SCANNING THE BACK NOW, CAGE IS TAKING A REBOUND AWAY FROM A HAPLESS ERIC MONTROSS AND IT'S GLORIOUS EVEN IN THIS HIDEOUS UNIFORM

GOT IT

VIN BAKER WAS A HELLUVA PLAYER FOR THE BUCKS. GOOD ENOUGH TO GET TRADED FOR SHAWN KEMP. SEATTLE BAKER AND CLEVELAND KEMP STILL LOOK WEIRD TO ME.

GOT IT

MAILMAN

ALREADY GOT IT BUT WHO CARES MAILMAN

SO MANY KICKASS POWER FORWARDS IN THIS PACK I'M LOVING IT. BUCK WAS TRADED FOR A DRAFT PICK THAT LATER BECAME MOOKIE BLAYLOCK. MIND BLOWN

NEED IT

THE POWER FORWARD STREAK CONTINUES. ANOTHER GUY INVOLVED IN A SHAWN KEMP TRADE ODDLY ENOUGH. SPOON WAS IN THE SHAQ DRAFT SO IF YOU RIPPED A BUNCH OF PACKS THAT YEAR CHASING THAT SHAQ-FU MORE OFTEN THAN NOT YOU GOT THIS GUY INSTEAD

GOT IT

OH BOY, HERE COME THE INSERTS

POWER FORWARD HOT PACK

ANOTHER ROOKIE YEAR CARD BUT NOT A ROOKIE. I DON'T UNDERSTAND THIS SET, IT LOOKS KINDA LIKE THE 93-94 SPECIAL EDITION SET ONLY ON FOIL. THE SQUISHED PHOTO IN THE CORNER SHOWS THE GUY *NEXT* TO THE FEATURED PLAYER ON THE CARD FOR SOME UNGODLY REASON. WHY DO THESE EXIST

RONY SEIKALY WARRIORS SEEMS BIZARRE TO ME. MIAMI HEAT FOREVER. APPARENTLY HE HAD ONE GOOD YEAR FOR ORLANDO AS WELL? MY MIND IS PERMANENTLY STUCK IN LATE 80S-EARLY 90S NBA LAND. I SHOULD ONLY OPEN 1991 HOOPS FROM NOW ON. WAIT, I CAN'T. EVERYONE'S CHASING MARK JACKSON MURDER CARDS NOW. OH LORD, TAKE ME BACK TO THE EIGHTIES

Friday, December 21, 2018

FOUND THIS AT FRYE'S I THINK, NOT SURE HOW MUCH NINTENDO WOULD LIKE THEM SELLING BOOTLEG MERCH LIKE THIS BUT THEY GET AWAY WITH IT I GUESS

I MEAN THEY ALREADY SCREWED UP, THERE'S ONLY 151 POKEYMANS NOT 200. MAYBE THE EXTRA CARDS ARE ITEMS OR THOSE POWER UP CARDS. WHAT ARE THEY CALLED THEY'RE LANDS IN MAGIC BUT I CAN'T REMEMBER WHAT THEY ARE IN POOKAMENS. TWO SPECIAL CARDS THO, I HOPE I GET A 3D SHINY HOLOGRAM CHARIZARD. WITH FEATHERS

#86 - ALOMOMOLA

THEY ALREADY GOT THE POKEDEX NUMBERS WRONG AND ALOMOMOLA WASN'T AVAILABLE UNTIL UNOVA BUT DAMN THE ARTWORK IS AMAZING FOR A BOOTLEG SET

#27 STOUTLAND

THIS MUST BE A BLACK AND WHITE SET PACK. MAYBE THE LAST DECENT GAME IN THE SERIES SO I AIN'T EVEN MAD

NINTENDO SHOULDN'T NAME THEIR POKKAMEN SOMETHING THAT WON'T GET THROUGH THEIR CURSE FILTER. I MEAN IF I WANT TO NAME MY CHARACTER AFTER A BIRD I SHOULD BE ABLE TO. THIS CARD IS FUZZY LIKE MOLD IS GROWING ON IT. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S SPECIAL OR IF PACK IS REALLY OLD

#151 SHINY LEDYBA

EVERYONE KNOWS #151 IS MEW AND YOU HAVE TO CATCH HER UNDER THE TRUCK. MAYBE IT'S A RARE BOOTLEG ERROR AND WORTH MONEY. THE CARD IS FOILEY BUT NOT VERY HOLO

#161 EVIL RAPIDASH

WHOA! IS THIS LIKE A REVERSE SHINY?? IT'S DOPE AS HELL WHATEVER IT IS. I WANT SATANIC FIRE UNICORN PONY ON MY TEAM

#135 SCYTHER

FINALLY A NORMAL DAMN POKEMON IN THIS PACK. TIME TO TEACH HIM SWORDS DANCE AND X-SCISSOR AND WRECK SOME SHIT

#110 TREECKO

HEY A STARTER. THEY NORMALLY MAKE YOU BUY A SPECIAL PACK FOR 20 BUCKS TO GET STARTERS BUT BOOTLEG PACK DON'T GIVE A FUCK. STARTERS FOR EVERYONE!

#52 MEOWTH

HOLY CRAP THEY FINALLY GOT THE NUMBER RIGHT. THE ARTIST FORGOT THE COIN ON HER HEAD THOUGH. STILL NOT SURE WHAT THAT ACRONYM UP AT THE TOP MEANS. A SPECIAL POKEMON CARD ADVENTURE?

THAT WAS A GOOD PACK. I THINK IF I WERE BUILDING A TEAM I'D GO TREEKO, EVIL RAPIDASH, ALOMOMOLA, SCYTHER, DIRTY BIRD, MEOWTH. MAYBE STOUTLAND OVER MEOWTH IF DEVIL HORSE HAS DARK-TYPE.

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